Everyone is impressed by letters written by Kamikaze pilot. Ican't
keep back my tears to read them. They joined to the Special AttackMission
and died purely to defend their country and people they love.
At that time,officially their letters were censored by troopsto
keep the military secret. They left their mind in letters,otherwise
their limited conditions.
There were rumor that U.S troops would punish people strictlywho
had data concerned with Kamikaze Special Attack mission afterfinishing
the war. So people threw letters and articles left by thedeceased
into the fire. But , in spite of the situation which peoplewere dangerous,
some people secreted and kept those things verycarefully. Thanks to
their courage and love , we can read theirletters and are moved our
mind deeply.
I quote those precious last letters home from referencebooks. Please
read letters. I would like to add letters in themeaning of mourning
for Kamikazes.

He was born in 1922 at Nagano Prefecture.From the Preparatory
Division,he advanced to Keio University,Faculty of Economics,in
1943.
On May 11,1945,killed in action as a member of the Army Special
Attack Unit, by dashing into an American mechanized unit located
in Kadena Bay,Okinawa. He was 22 years old.

Corporal Kiyoshi Oishi lost his father
in Osaka Air Raid and lost his ill mother one after another. Only
his elementary school student sister (Shizue) was left, and she
was adopted by their uncle. The farewell letter of the generous
brother, who always took care of his sister, moves our heart so
deeply that we cannot read it without tears.

Since lieutenant Uemura was fatherless
family, he coud not wipe out family line, he did student marriage.
He had one daughter. Nevertheless, his volunteer for Kamikaze
attack was carried out. He had the military telephone connected
to the house in Tokyo by late at night [ which sortie at a south
direction from the Nagasaki Omura base by consideration of the
war comrades who know such a situation / the previous night and
late at night ], and only a voice hears a baby's cry and he left
through the receiver.

Captain Shibuya was acting as the division
captain in the Sendai flight school. He explained Tokko spirit
and volunteered for the Tokko member.He repeated and volunteered
for becoming a Tokko member, and it was able to admit becoming
a member at last. And he was accompanied by eight young crews,
and was sortied and killed in war.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Ogata joined
the IJN as a gakuto (a college student who became a soldier or
officer of the IJA or the IJN during his academic years) after
the beginning of the Greater East Asian War, and volunteered for
kamikaze squadron. He rode on Mitsubishi Type-1 bomber ("Betty")
and made a sortie from Kanoya Base as a pilot of a rocket-powered
kamikaze plane Ohka ("Baka"). His elder brother was also a gakuto
and a lieutenant junior grade of the IJN. The patriotic Ogata
brothers and their mother exchanged their feelings with waka (old
Japanese poem. Tanka is one type of waka), and the following will
is the jisei (farewell poem) from Lieutenant Junior Grade Jou
Ogata from his mother.

October 30th is the early part of the
history of kamikaze. Ensign Hirota made a sortie with 8 pilots,
including three of his colleagues. According to American documents,
his squadron heavily damaged carrier Franklin and light carrier
Below Wood. With this outstanding military achievement, we could
know the braveness of his squadron, however, those pilots were
humans like us too, and the letters of those young men with full
of affections to their mother touch our heart.

He was a boy flight school graduate and
looks pure. This will is written to the father and the mother.
His mother was a stepmother. He was apologizing for the impoliteness,
when he was a child. It is the letter by which it is full of love.